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Sharks are fish. Since life got started in the oceans, fish had a long head start over land animals.

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Q: Why did sharks come before dinosaurs mammals amphibians and primates?
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What was the time when humans were existing with dinosaurs?

Humans never existed with the Dinosaurs. While the dinosaurs lived the largest mammals were about the size of modern rats and were mostly nocturnal (active while the dinosaurs slept). It was not until all of the dinosaurs had died that mammals could risk coming out of hiding during the daytime. The dinosaurs had been dead for about 10 million years before the first primates evolved, and humans evolved from primates about 54 million years after that (dinosaurs had been dead roughly 64 million years before the first humans lived).


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Where elephants here before dinosaurs?

Mammals did not evolve until dinosaurs were prolific when they did appear they were very small and very scarce when dinosaurs died out.


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The first mammals appeared in the Triassic Period of the Mesozoic Era, when dinosaurs had already been present for at least 9 million years.


Were there animals on pangaea?

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Did mammals appear in the fossil record before dinosaurs or after?

Mammals appeared in the fossil record before dinosaurs, with the first mammal-like reptiles evolving around 300 million years ago. Dinosaurs evolved later and became dominant during the Mesozoic Era, while mammals diversified and evolved into various forms alongside dinosaurs.


Were frogs around during the time of the dinosaurs?

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